Biographies of Remedies

Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra is professor of social and cultural history at the University of Amsterdam and is particularly interested in the social history of medicine, homeopathy and psychiatry in the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, and witchcraft, deviance and tolerance in the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Godelieve van Heteren is a university lecturer in the history of medicine at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. She has a special interest in the comparative history of European healthcare systems and in the history of Dutch colonial medicine in the Dutch East Indies between 1870-1942. Tilli Tansey is historian of modern medical science at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL and convenor of the History of Twentieth century Medicine Group. Her research interests include the history of the modern medical research laboratory, focusing especially on physiology and pharmacology.

• ContributorsIntroductionGodelieve van Heteren, Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Tilli TanseyChanging Places: Illicit Drugs, Medicines, Tobacco and Nicotine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesVirginia BerridgePharmacists, Druggists and the Spirit of Thorbecke: The Shaping of the Dutch Pharmacy, 1865-c. 1920Frank HuismanThe 'Dutch Drugstore’ as an Attempt to Reshape Pharmaceutical Practice: The Conflict between Ethical and Commercial Pharmacy in Dutch Cultures of MedicinesRein VosCommunity Pharmacy in Great Britain: Mediation at the Boundary between Professional and Lay Care, 1920 to 1995Stuart AndersonHomoeopathy and Its Concern for Purity: The Dutch Case in the Early-Twentieth CenturyMarijke Gijswijt-HofstraDrugs for Healthy People: The Culture of Testing Hormonal Contraceptives for Women and MenNelly OudshoornContrasting Cultures of Contraception: Birth Control Clinics and the Working-Classes in Britain between the WarsKate Fisher'Public Spirited and Enterprising Volunteers’: The Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control and the British Clinical Trials of the Contraceptive Pill, 1959-1973Lara MarksHygienic Articles, Patent Medicines and Rubber Goods’: Markets and Meanings in Early Twentieth Century NetherlandsWillem de Blécourt“Streptomycin in Postwar Britain: A Cultural History of a Miracle DrugAlan YoshiokaAbout Media, Audiences and Marketing Medicines: The InterferonsToine PietersThe Billion Dollar Molecule: Taxol in Historical and Theoretical PerspectiveVivien Walsh & Jordan GoodmanAfterword. Remedies: Who Cares? Remedies, Care and Cultures of Healing in the Twentieth CenturyGodelieve van HeterenIndex

”All fourteen papers […] are well documented…”- in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2004, Vol. 78